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Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

Barnard, Ian

Paperback

General ReferenceWriting InstructionTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0874219469
ISBN13: 9780874219463
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: Sep 15 2014
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.51
Language: English

In Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be difficult to translate to the classroom, Barnard upends several especially intransigent tenets that continue to influence the teaching of writing and how students are encouraged to understand writing.

Using six major principles of writing classrooms and textbooks-clarity, intent, voice, ethnography, audience, and objectivity-Barnard looks at the implications of poststructuralist theory for pedagogy. While suggesting some evocative poststructuralist pedagogical practices, the author focuses on diagnosing the fault lines of composition's refusal of poststructuralism rather than on providing solutions in the form of teaching templates.

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces addresses the need to more effectively engage in poststructuralist concepts in composition in an accessible and engaging voice that will advance the conversation about relations between the theory and teaching of writing.

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